Improvement in washing-machines



UNITED STATES J OIIN O. HALLENBEUK, OF CHATHAM VILLAGE, NEIV YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,893, dated February20, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN C. HALLENBEOK, of Uhatham Village, in thecounty of Columbia and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovementinlVa slung-Machines 5 and I do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enablethose skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in whichdrawing Figure l is a vertical cross-section of a washing-machinecontaining my invention, showing the handle arranged for operating themachine. Fig. 2 is an end view, showing the handle folded down out ofthe way. Fig. 3 is a crosssection through the handle and its sleevetaken at 00 0c of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a top view, partly in section, ofone of the joints of the folding-handle.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to washing-machines; and consists, among otherthings, in a peculiar construction of the handle, whereby the handle,when the machine is to be operated, is rigidly secured in a horizontalposition in a sleeve or sleeves, one or more, according to the number ofarms the handle is composed of and when the operation ceases, the handlecan be folded and allowed to hang down in front of the machine, bydrawing its arms out to the ends of their sleeves, the handle andsleeves being connected to each other by means of pins in the handle andslots in the sleeve, so arranged that when the pins come to the outerends of the slots, they serve as hinges on which the handle swings.Another feature of this invention consists in the construction of theperforated false bottom, which is made in sections, one section beingmovable, so that it can be lifted out to allow one to have access to themud-well below the false bottom, to clean it out when necessary.

The letter A designates the box of a washing-machine, whose generalfeatures resemble a washing-machine shown in Letters Patent grantedMarch 15, 1870, to George IV. Putnam. The letter B designates thehandle, which consists in this example of two arms, 0 O, united at theirouter ends by a rail, D, and about midway of their length by an innerbrace, E, the rail D being the part which is held by the operator inusing the machine. The inner ends of the arms 0 O slide in sleeves F F,which are rigidly secured in a horizontal position to the upper part ofthe presser-frame Ga Each sleeve F has one of its sides-slotted, as seenat H, to receive a pin, I, which goes through such slot into the arm inthe sleeve, the head of the pin being outside of the slot. WVhen thearms of the handle are pushed inward into the sleeves to the fullextent, as shown in Fig. 1, the handle is held rigidly in a horizontalposition to allow the machine to be operated.

hen it is desired to set the machine aside, the handle is pulled outwarduntil the pins I reach the ends of the slots H of the sleeves, and thehandle is then turned downward out of the way to the position shown inFig. 2. In order to allow the handle thus to swing down. the top andbottom of the sleeves are cut away so as to allow the sides which havethe slots 11 to extend further out, and the slots H are extended outbeyond the terminations of the top and bottom of the sleeves far enoughto allow the ends of the arms 0 to pass them and turn with the pins atthe ends of the slots. If desired, the pins I may be fast to thesleeves, and in this case the arms of the handle would have to beslotted to allow of drawing them out and pushing them in. Or the arms ofthe handle might be joined and provided with a sleeve similar to that ofa parasol-handle, as shown in Fig.

That feature of the invention which relates to the false bottom is seenin Fig. 1, where the letter J designates the false perforated bottom,composed of a stationary part, 1, and a movable part, 2, the pointmarked 3 being the line of division. between them. In order to raise themovable division of the false bottom with facility I have formed arecess, K, in its front edge to receive the hand of the operator.

horizontal sleeves F F, so connected that the handle can be extended andheld rigid in the sleeves, or allowed to fold down, substantially asdescribed.

JOHN C. HALLENBECK.

Witnesses:

HIRAM D. FORD, WILLIAM G. DALEY.

